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"Betroth" in a Sentence (23 examples)
And what man is there that hath betrothed a wife, and hath not taken her? let him goe and returne vnto his houſe, leſt he die in battel, and another man take her.
He betrothed his daughter to a distant relative.
The couple were betrothed not long after they met each other.
You to remoue that ſiege of griefe from her [Juliet] / Betrothd and vvould haue married her perforce / To Countie Paris.
To me, O Bacchus thou betrothedſt Heaven: / Ah me! for heaven vvhat dovvries here are given!
VVherefore let Chriſtiana look out ſome Damſels for her Sons, to vvhom they may be Betroathed, &c. that the Name of their Father, and the Houſe of his Progenitors may never be forgotten in the VVorld.
And in the ſixth month the angel Gabriel vvas ſent from God, unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth, To a virgin eſpouſed to a man, vvhoſe name vvas Joſeph, of the houſe of David, and the virgins name vvas Mary. […] [Note] 26, 27. Not married but betrothed.
[T]he Teſtimony of the Man and VVoman thus betrothed unto each other ſhall likevviſe be good Evidence of ſuch a Contract [of espousal], if they confeſs the ſame, ſince Eſpouſals are contracted by Conſent alone.
[T]here is a given a love truly conjugial, the delights vvhereof are myriads, ſcarce any of vvhich are as yet knovvn to the vvorld; but they vvill be knovvn, vvhen the church betrotheth herſelf to her Lord [Jesus], and is married.
How! thou betrothest thee now to a second? Seer that there come not / Thy first bridegroom back to forbid the banns at the altar!
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We loved each other at once, but she was betrothed to her guardian Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, and I saw that my suit was hopeless.
In fact Eline betrothes herself to Nils Lykke and is distraught shen she learns who he is.
One enduring legacy of intermarriage in Egypt is the practice of betrothing girls at birth. […] Strangely, the practice of betrothing girls at birth has survived the test of time and is still being practised by some African tribes.
And I [God] will betroth thee [his people] vnto me foreuer; yea, I will betroth thee vnto me in righteouſneſſe, and in iudgement, and in louing kindneſſe, and in mercies. I will euen betroth thee vnto me in faithfulneſſe, and thou ſhalt know the Lord.
God betrotheth thee in righteouſnes, and putteth righteouſnes into thee; […]
He [Jesus] has paid my Debts to thy [God the Father's] Juſtice, and thou vvill not be tvvice paid: Thou betrotheſt in Judgment, on mature Counſel; thy Gifts and Callings are vvithout Repentance: Thou foreſavveſt all Events, and hovv often I ſhould abuſe thy Mercy, grieve thy Spirit, and yet betrothedſt in Judgment: […]
[W]henever any Biſhop is conſecrated, he be conſecrated to ſome certain and determinate Church, to vvhich he vvas betrothed, or became a Spouſe at the Time of his Confirmation. Hereby it ſeems, that if any Perſon be conſecrated a Biſhop to that Church, vvhereunto he vvas not before betrothed, he ſhall not receive the Habit of Conſecration, as not being Canonically promoted to it.
[M]ay my soul remember thee, oh thou God of my salvation! […] [T]hou passedst by, and didst bid me live, and didst cleanse me, and take me home, and betrothedst me to thyself, and made me thine for ever; […]
To priuate fight they haue betroutht themſelues, / Of which conflicte, the end muſt needes be this, / That one do liue, that other die the death.
[W]hat is he for a foole that betrothes himſelfe to vnquietneſſe?
He [John Donne] vvas novv entered into the eighteenth year of his age, and at that time had betrothed himſelf to no Religion that might give him any other denomination than a Chriſtian.
It vvill be enough for thoſe that have betrothed the VVay [Christianity], that many are the hands heads and hearts of ſuch vvorthy and unvvearied Gentlemen as are Going along vvith them.
[C]ontinuing to work on my Ph.D., still renting an apartment in Australia, […] I am out of sight, out of mind, I don't belong, a special COVID status is given for me to go on. A three-month renewal to which I am now betrothen, the plans I submit get pushed with delay after delay.
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